We have a statute that provides that
no person shall operate any motor vehicle upon any highway at such a rate of
speed as to endanger the life of any occupant of that motor vehicle or at a rate
of speed greater than fifty-five miles per hour. If you find that the defendant
operated a motor vehicle upon a highway either at such a speed as to endanger
the life of any occupant of that motor vehicle or at a rate of speed greater
than fifty-five miles per hour, then the defendant has failed to conform to the
duty imposed by the legislature through the enactment of the statute that I have
just described.